Kranthi Varala
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
55
Citations
3,694
Est. group size
~2
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
20
Publishing since 2007
Kranthi Varala studies how plants sense and respond to nutrients, especially nitrogen, at the level of genes and gene networks, using computational and single-cell approaches combined with wet-lab experiments. Their work spans model plants and crops, mapping the gene regulatory networks that control root growth, nutrient foraging, and stress tolerance, including studies of extreme-environment plants from the Atacama Desert.
Publication output has been steady but modest over the last decade, averaging just over two papers per year with some year-to-year fluctuation and a slight uptick in the most recent years.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Every Cell Counts: Tomato Root Responses to Nitrogen at Single-Cell Resolution
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026
- Uncovering the early and conserved molecular mechanisms of root nitrogen foraging in model and crops
BMC Genomics · 2026
- Thiol depletion and disruption of proteostasis contribute to the phytotoxicity of juglone
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026
- EvoNet: A phylogenomic and systems biology approach to identify genes underlying plant survival in marginal, low‐N soils
2025
- Developmentally regulated genes drive phylogenomic splits in ovule evolution
Nature Communications · 2025
- Organ-delimited gene regulatory networks provide high accuracy in candidate transcription factor selection across diverse processes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2024
- Genome-wide, Organ-delimited gene regulatory networks (OD-GRNs) provide high accuracy in candidate TF selection across diverse processes
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2023
- Predictive metabolomics of multiple Atacama plant species unveils a core set of generic metabolites for extreme climate resilience
New Phytologist · 2022
- Evolutionarily informed machine learning enhances the power of predictive gene-to-phenotype relationships
Nature Communications · 2021
- Plant ecological genomics at the limits of life in the Atacama Desert
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021
- A Systems Biology Approach to Identify Essential Epigenetic Regulators for Specific Biological Processes in Plants
Plants · 2021
- Transient genome-wide interactions of the master transcription factor NLP7 initiate a rapid nitrogen-response cascade
Nature Communications · 2020
- Network Walking charts transcriptional dynamics of nitrogen signaling by integrating validated and predicted genome-wide interactions
Nature Communications · 2019
- The 4th Dimension of Transcriptional Networks: TIME
The FASEB Journal · 2019
- Temporal transcriptional logic of dynamic regulatory networks underlying nitrogen signaling and use in plants
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences×3
- BMC Genomics×2
- Ricardo A. Chávez Montes
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Indiana University
- Yueh‐Ju Hou
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Rajeev Ranjan
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Scott D. Michaels
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Indiana University
- Yeon Jeong Kim
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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